AMD releases USD Hydra plugin for Blender 1.1
Free plugin for composing and rendering USD scenes in Blender can now export animated USD files.
Friday, June 3rd, 2022
Redshift
Maxon ships Redshift 3.5
Major update to the GPU renderer adds support for CPU and hybrid rendering. Support for AMD GPUs on Windows and Linux to come.
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022
Omniverse gets Substance support, new UE5 live link
Option to use renderers like Cycles, OctaneRender and V-Ray inside Omniverse apps due soon.
Saturday, March 26th, 2022
SideFX releases the Houdini 19 Apple Silicon build
New preview build of the VFX-industry-standard app adds native support for Apple's M1 processors.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Apple unveils the M1 Ultra
'Most powerful chip ever built for a personal computer' has a higher GPU compute performance than some Nvidia Ampere RTX cards.
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022
Discover how to create hi-res custom trees with SpeedTree
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial reveals how to create hero-quality assets with the tree authoring tool.
Sunday, February 20th, 2022
GraphN lets you create custom tools for Maya and Unreal
Updated: New visual programming system for Maya and Unreal Engine now free for non-commercial use.
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
AMD unveils new Radeon Pro W6400 workstation GPU
See how the $229 hardware-accelerated ray tracing-capable GPU performs with CG apps like Photoshop and Rhino.
Monday, January 24th, 2022
Maxon acquires Pixologic
Pixologic founder Ofer Alon and entire ZBrush team have joined Maxon. See what the deal means for ZBrush and its sibling products.
Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
5 tools updates you may have missed in December 2021
Including support for hair rendering in Redshift RT, plus ArtEngine, HitFilm and ftrack Studio updates.
Monday, January 3rd, 2022
Download AMD's free USD Hydra plugin for Blender
Now officially shipping: new plugin lets users import, compose and render USD scenes in Blender.
Tuesday, December 21st, 2021
Foundry ships Katana 5.0
Lighting and look dev software gets new Nuke Bridge for live linking to Nuke comps, updates to the Hydra Viewer and Foresight+ rendering.
Tuesday, December 14th, 2021
Create art-directable building demolition FX in Houdini
New Gnomon Workshop tutorial shows how to go from empty scene to complete destruction simulation.
Monday, December 13th, 2021